Twitter feed of Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points (opens in new tab)

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71 pointsjmillerinc15y ago39 comments

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ck215y ago· 4 in thread

Clever but how about a real RSS feed of those so I don't have to go to an RSS feed, then twitter, then bitly, then the original link?

Especially since with the shortened URL I don't really know where I am going.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done - http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20

Comments will show up in the rss items (not active yet, should show up within the hour).

w1ntermute15y ago

Clever but how about a real RSS feed of those so I don't have to go to an RSS feed, then twitter, then bitly, then the original link?

Yes, use Readability to parse the pages and show the full text of the article directly in the RSS feed.

jmillerincOP15y ago

The Readability parse is a good idea, but implementing that would need more time than I can spare right now. If anyone wants to do the legwork on that, please contact me and I'll be happy to put it in the feed.

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OoTheNigerian15y ago

You forgot the the app for the RSS feed.

protomyth15y ago· 3 in thread

I like how you included both links. The problem I had with the other twitter feed is that it linked only to the original story and not to Hacker News.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Thx. The tweets will also contain an attribution if the submitter lists a twitter handle in their HN profile.

Nogwater15y ago

This one (disclosure: I maintain it) links directly to the HN page: http://twitter.com/HNComments

protomyth15y ago

nice, thx

oscardelben15y ago· 3 in thread

This is actually useful. Care to share how you implemented it?

jmillerincOP15y ago

It's a Python script I run every 5 minutes with cron. It uses BeautifulSoup to scrape the newsyc front page, Tweepy to send out out tweets, and sqlite3 to keep track of which stories have already been tweeted.

mike-cardwell15y ago

Why use an sqlite DB when you can use the twitter feed its self to check whether or not a story has been posted?

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virrgil15y ago

Could you share the source please?

michaelcampbell15y ago· 3 in thread

The trailing close paren is becoming part of the bit.ly links. (At least on IE and Firefox, for me.)

mrduncan15y ago

Twitter has always included trailing parens in links (even though, it seems more often than not they're not supposed to be). On the bright side, bit.ly ignores them so you still get the originally intended link.

I'm pretty sure trailing square brackets are ignored - anyone know for sure?

jmillerincOP15y ago

Thanks for catching that. I've changed the code to use square brackets instead of close parens.

michaelcampbell15y ago

It's doing it on the square brackets too. =) It's not a huge deal; as another person replied to me, bitly seems to ignore them and get you where you're going.

dschobel15y ago· 2 in thread

Well done!

Any idea how difficult it would be to support an arbitrary user customizable point threshold?

jmillerincOP15y ago

I'd have to create multiple twitter feeds for different point thresholds. If there's a particular one you have in mind, let me know.

Hopka15y ago

Something like 100 - so it's only 2 or 3 stories per day would be nice.

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peregrine15y ago· 2 in thread

One thing I'd like to see is the YCombinator logo for the logo, helps it stand out.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done

peregrine15y ago

Thanks!

conesus15y ago· 1 in thread

How about if the original link is small enough to fit in without truncation (bit.ly), then show the original link as well as a bit.ly link to the comments.

I hate losing the domain information in bit.ly links, and the @hackernewsbot (http://twitter.com/hackernewsbot) does a nice job of showing the original URL when possible.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done.

abraham15y ago

If anyone is interested I built a Yahoo Pipe that pulls in stories with 10+ votes: http://blog.abrah.am/2010/05/hacker-news-10-rss-feed.html

freejoe7615y ago

YAHNTB!! (Yet Another HN Twitter Bot) ,,, added to the list here: http://twitter.com/joemurph/hn-bots/members

petercooper15y ago

http://twitter.com/newsycombinator is also good if you want anything that hits the front page (surprisingly it has almost 14,000 followers.. which seems sky high compared to the number of HN users to me.. :-))

sferik15y ago

This totally solves the problem I asked about a month ago. Thanks! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453143

avar15y ago

If it isn't too much trouble a version of this for 40 points (and maybe 60) would be great. I find 20 to be way too much traffic in my Twitter feed, so I unsubscribed from it.

credo15y ago

I just a newsyc20 tweet that said (via my twitter-id)

Figuring out the HN poster's twitter id and then including that in the tweet makes newsyc20 even more interesting

royrod15y ago

Nicely done, Jeff, useful!

recoiledsnake15y ago

Nice. Now do the same thing for reddit.

/ducks

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33 comments · 15 top-level

ck215y ago· 4 in thread

Clever but how about a real RSS feed of those so I don't have to go to an RSS feed, then twitter, then bitly, then the original link?

Especially since with the shortened URL I don't really know where I am going.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done - http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20

Comments will show up in the rss items (not active yet, should show up within the hour).

w1ntermute15y ago

Clever but how about a real RSS feed of those so I don't have to go to an RSS feed, then twitter, then bitly, then the original link?

Yes, use Readability to parse the pages and show the full text of the article directly in the RSS feed.

jmillerincOP15y ago

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OoTheNigerian15y ago

You forgot the the app for the RSS feed.

protomyth15y ago· 3 in thread

I like how you included both links. The problem I had with the other twitter feed is that it linked only to the original story and not to Hacker News.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Thx. The tweets will also contain an attribution if the submitter lists a twitter handle in their HN profile.

Nogwater15y ago

This one (disclosure: I maintain it) links directly to the HN page: http://twitter.com/HNComments

protomyth15y ago

nice, thx

oscardelben15y ago· 3 in thread

This is actually useful. Care to share how you implemented it?

jmillerincOP15y ago

mike-cardwell15y ago

Why use an sqlite DB when you can use the twitter feed its self to check whether or not a story has been posted?

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virrgil15y ago

Could you share the source please?

michaelcampbell15y ago· 3 in thread

The trailing close paren is becoming part of the bit.ly links. (At least on IE and Firefox, for me.)

mrduncan15y ago

I'm pretty sure trailing square brackets are ignored - anyone know for sure?

jmillerincOP15y ago

Thanks for catching that. I've changed the code to use square brackets instead of close parens.

michaelcampbell15y ago

It's doing it on the square brackets too. =) It's not a huge deal; as another person replied to me, bitly seems to ignore them and get you where you're going.

dschobel15y ago· 2 in thread

Well done!

Any idea how difficult it would be to support an arbitrary user customizable point threshold?

jmillerincOP15y ago

I'd have to create multiple twitter feeds for different point thresholds. If there's a particular one you have in mind, let me know.

Hopka15y ago

Something like 100 - so it's only 2 or 3 stories per day would be nice.

3 more replies

peregrine15y ago· 2 in thread

One thing I'd like to see is the YCombinator logo for the logo, helps it stand out.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done

peregrine15y ago

Thanks!

conesus15y ago· 1 in thread

How about if the original link is small enough to fit in without truncation (bit.ly), then show the original link as well as a bit.ly link to the comments.

I hate losing the domain information in bit.ly links, and the @hackernewsbot (http://twitter.com/hackernewsbot) does a nice job of showing the original URL when possible.

jmillerincOP15y ago

Done.

abraham15y ago

If anyone is interested I built a Yahoo Pipe that pulls in stories with 10+ votes: http://blog.abrah.am/2010/05/hacker-news-10-rss-feed.html

freejoe7615y ago

YAHNTB!! (Yet Another HN Twitter Bot) ,,, added to the list here: http://twitter.com/joemurph/hn-bots/members

petercooper15y ago

sferik15y ago

This totally solves the problem I asked about a month ago. Thanks! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453143

avar15y ago

If it isn't too much trouble a version of this for 40 points (and maybe 60) would be great. I find 20 to be way too much traffic in my Twitter feed, so I unsubscribed from it.

credo15y ago

I just a newsyc20 tweet that said (via my twitter-id)

Figuring out the HN poster's twitter id and then including that in the tweet makes newsyc20 even more interesting

royrod15y ago

Nicely done, Jeff, useful!

recoiledsnake15y ago

Nice. Now do the same thing for reddit.

/ducks

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